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richmaines.bsky.social @richmaines.bsky.social · 13h

LOL @mistykitty3.bsky.social we always ask ourselves the same thing. Our Aussiedoodle (pictured) and Chihuahua (#4) also prefer the tops. 🤷‍♂️

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richmaines.bsky.social @richmaines.bsky.social · 18h

Three out of Four

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richmaines.bsky.social @richmaines.bsky.social · Aug 31

“Pro disease” would be an apt description of his nature.

richmaines.bsky.social @richmaines.bsky.social · Jul 29

I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “Solidarity & Rapid Response: a 2-part training on showing up for immigrant communities” - sign up no www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...

Solidarity & Rapid Response: a 2-part training on showing up for immigrant communities · Showing Up for Racial Justice

Across the country, immigrant communities are under attack and authoritarian forces are gaining ground. But there’s a growing movement of people ready to take action with clarity, courage, and discipl...

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richmaines.bsky.social @richmaines.bsky.social · Jun 14

This is horrifying.

The American Prospect @prospect.org · Jun 13

The latest from our star Boeing reporter Maureen Tkacik: turns out a whistleblower said it would take 10-12 years for 787s to start failing. The one that crashed into an Indian hospital today was built in 2014. prospect.org/economy/2025...

One of the Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed

Whistleblowers always warned that passengers would pay a price for Boeing’s tyrannical corner-cutting, especially with the planes shipped overseas.

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richmaines.bsky.social @richmaines.bsky.social · Jun 10

I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “A National Call to Action: White People Against ICE! Our Role in Showing Up in Solidarity” - sign up www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...

A National Call to Action: White People Against ICE! Our Role in Showing Up in Solidarity · Showing Up for Racial Justice

The whole country has watched ICE agents conducting violent raids across the country, sweeping up immigrants from their workplaces and homes. This weekend in LA, in response to a mass sweep by ICE of ...

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Apr 2

I made a comic on how we got here & trump/supporters - collecting things he's said that would seem to have been over the line - and how that never seems to be the case is the real problem...
on my site with full alt-text and citations here spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/

A comics page in black and white. Arranged in 5 tiers of panels, each with successively smaller panels and more per row - with the exception of the first. Opens with no panel border - silhouette of a hand in a gun position - with smoke coming from index finger. speech balloon “i could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn’t lose any voters, ok?” Caption “this is perhaps the most truthful thing trump has ever said…” Same row - more than half page width panel with three drawings of trump making jerky body distortions mocking cerebral palsy. Caption “one might’ve assumed when he mocked reporter serge kovaleski that it would cross a line and be the end of him in public life.” Speech balloon “now the poor guy, you ought to see this guy!” Caption “that was naive.” Next row, first panel, slightly more than page width - closeup on trump’s open mouth, shouting “when you’re a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. Grab ‘em by the pussy. you can do anything.” Caption “surely, there’d be no coming back from this?” Second panel - silhouettes of tiki torch carrying rioters with their shirt collars showing. Caption “or this?” Dialogue “you also had some very fine people on both sides.” Caption “and yet…” Third row - three panels, first slightly more than a third, rest smaller still. Silhouette of trump throwing a paper towel roll like shooting a basketball. Dialogue “a great day…” Caption “c’mon…”. Second panel closeup on his lips, dialogue “why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Caption “really?” Third panel closeup on a coiled-style phone cord, dialogue “i would like you to do us a favor, though.” In background words from the first articles of impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors. Dialogue “the call with ukraine was perfect, with “no pressure.”
full alt-text on my site at the link

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richmaines.bsky.social @richmaines.bsky.social · Mar 27

💯 and again on full display during Charlottesville, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor….while they refuse to even recognize the whole premise behind the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. And now they attempt to erase history. We won’t let them. #resist

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richmaines.bsky.social @richmaines.bsky.social · Mar 27

Cowards, villains or fools.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · Mar 26

I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Feb 28

We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · Feb 17

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Feb 17

Tomorrow in the NYT: Nothing emphasizes the elderly and out-of-touch character of Democratic Party leadership than their reluctance to allow a new generation of white nationalist 19-year-olds to have access to everyone's tax records

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